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So. a quick bombing run this morning got me the last 500 points of rep needed to hit Exalted with Ogri'la - that's three Exaltations in the last week.
So, now I need to get a group together and do the group quest that opens up the Netherwing faction grind.
But, um, the guild mailing list has had nothing but Age of Conan on it all day. I'm going to be a lonely Leaf...
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As the good Lady Leafshine begins to run out of campaigns to wage against the Burning Crusade, it's time for us to turn our attentions to Team Leafy, those younger members of the Alliance that I sponsor. Over the next week or so, I'll introduce you to the main players in Team Leafy, and then let you vote on who takes the run to 70 first…
Ularia is a decicated follower of the Light, who stands firm in the defence of her allies. Or, in other words, she's a space goat tankadin that loves nothing more than running into a group of mobs, dropping a consecrate and going to work on them. Now in her 27th season, young Ularia is busy hanging out with her fellow space goats in the goatish enclave of Forest Song, taking the fight (and by fight she means rolling pin) to the heads of demons, orcs and satyrs, to aid Leafy's people, and her own.
Inevitably, Ularia was born out of a shortage of tanks in my guild. Of course, we're also short of healers, but the lack of people to stand up front and get hit lots is more acute. So Ularia has her eye on a slot amongst the ghetto crowd control tanks of the guild like Monarch and Glaive. None of that "standing at the back, casting one spell again and again" for her…
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Oh, it's an odd time in the LeafyLand. My push towards character completion continues, with me ding 375 fishing while doing the fishing daily quest today. I'm delighted with this - I never maxed out my fishing in the original game, before the release of Burning Crusade, so I was determined to hit the top before Wrath of the Lich King. And I did! As of today, all my professions are maxed out. Go me!
The problem is that it's not only me that's going. A good chunk of my guild are getting ready to play Age of Conan when it releases at the weekend. They have more playtime than me and some of them have two 70s that are pretty much finished. And some of them have a lot more…
They're not quitting, mind, just playing an alternative game as they're finding fewer and fewer things to do in WoW. And I think that's a problem for Blizzard. Wrath may be up to six months away and 2.4 was, allegedly, the last content patch of the Burning Crusade. If we go six months with nothing new to do, the WoW population may be a whole lot smaller by the time the next expansion hits.
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Thanks to everone who attended the first Leafy Live! chat earlier. The transcript is below:
I'll follow it up with another one soon!
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I had another "whoopee" moment over the weekend, but I decided to save this one for today, so as not to burst your brain with too much Leafy Whoopee.
After I ran out of SSO daily quests to do on Saturday, I pottered off to do the Fishing Daily Quest. While fishing up some bait, I hit 372, which was great. And then, when I handed in my quest, I finally, finally, finally got my Weather-Beaten Journal and the ability to track fish. I was beginning to doubt that the thing would ever drop for me...
But that got me thinking. There was a bunch of stuff I didn't get done before Burning Crusade, like maxing out my fishing, or getting rep grinds done. But with BC, more and more of those are getting done. And Blizz is actively helping that.
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Nothing like a Shattered Sun Pendant of Restoration to make you feel good about the weekend…
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Thanks to my long-serving iMac G4 finally giving up the ghost a few weeks ago, my WoW experience has been enhanced of late by the power of an Intel-based iMac. The big white beast has enough poke lurking behind the 24" screen than I can run WoW on close to the highest settings and still get excellent framerates.
And the result is often a remarkably different game. Doing the Mana Cell dailies used to send me into a darker version of the Death effect. With a decent graphics card, I can finally see it as Blizz intended:
Phased from Leafshine on Vimeo.
The whole "shifting screen" effect really created a feeling of slight unreality, like you really were phased into another plane of existence. And I'd never seen it before.
It was a clever move to keep the requirements for the game low, but I hadn't appreciated just how much I'd been missing out on…
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I'm willing to accept that maybe I overstimated how long it would take me to hit Exalted this weekend…
Next on the list: The Shattered Sun Offensive. Only 6637 rep to go…
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